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December 23

For thus saith the Lord God,
My people went down aforetime
into Egypt to sojourn there;
and the Assyrian oppressed them
without cause.

Now therefore, what have I here,
saith the Lord, that my people
is taken away for nought?
they that rule over them
make them to howl, saith the Lord;
and my name continually every day
is blasphemed.

Therefore my people shall know my name:
therefore they shall know in that day
that I am he that doth speak:
behold, it is I.

How beautiful upon the mountains
are the feet of him
that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace;
that bringeth good tidings of good,
that publisheth salvation;
that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice;
with the voice together shall they sing:
for they shall see eye to eye,
when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

Break forth into joy, sing together,
ye waste places of Jerusalem:
for the Lord hath comforted his people,
he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

The Lord hath made bare his holy arm
in the eyes of all the nations;
and all the ends of the earth
shall see the salvation of our God.

Isaiah 52:4-10